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  • of forty lawyers committed to that--the planning and then the post-arrest process. In the urban disorders several years ago--I guess three years ago--we created a special unit in the Criminal Division. We called it our "Summer Project." To gather
  • group like that could dragoon the legislature. He thought it was frightening. The question was, what could be done in the Senate? Well, the Senate Post Office Committee capitulated pretty quick. Then the question came to the Senate floor. I told
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • friend of the family and a friend of ours. out in this precinct, supported me. Judge Calvin Hughes, who lived And the Johnson boys up at the Trading Post, and a number of people--I hate to try to single them out--that supported me, that felt like I did
  • the The Washington Post wasn't that much. The [St. Louis] Post- Dispatch·or the L.A. Times hadn't begun to build up. M: And he was interested in projecting beyond a regional-- S: He was interested in his national image. it. There's just no question about
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Let me ask you about the newspapers in Houston during that election, the Post and the Chronicle in particular. S: I'm not sure but what they both endorsed Coke. remember. I'm not sure. I can't I'm not sure we got either one of the newspaper
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • mentioned that at the end of 1964 Mr. McNamara suggested that you be brought back in as a more or less regular ad hoc adVisor to Mac Bundy. N: This was not regular. This was a special project of getting ready for Mr. Wilson's post-election visit
  • be able to find someone better qualified than I for this post." difference. He said, ''Well, that doesn't make any Anybody with any intelligence can pick up the pieces, and maybe it's better not to have a Manpower expert, per se." Well, I still LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • as open as they might otherwise have been. But I did campaign in western Massachusetts with Humphrey for the ticket, and I was present in Post Office Square when President Johnson came in in the late part of the campaign. I guess it was the last week
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • believe it was. Connally, who was then governor, was doing his damnedest to get out of Byers--I'm not certain it was Byers but I think I'm right. The Houston Post? F: I think Byers was with the Chronicle then. I'm not sure. W: Anyway, it was one
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • think that his work for the Post to this day is very professional, and I admire Don Oberdorfer. G: Peter J: Braestrup. Braestrup is one of the very best, in my view. He was always as objective as a top-flight reporter could be, in those days
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to raise money for the President. Well, if you go back on the records, you'll see it was blazoned across the papers in the Midwest and also I think the Washington Post and the [Washington] Star. It was a one-day wonder. Hubert and I learned that you don't
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to that time. Oh, yes, I remember that very well, that feeling. I had it, too, you know. G: Yes, I know. K: We'll talk about the actual writing of the book in discussing the post-inauguration period. In this particular period there were only just those two
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)